Huge Log Files? Use Tail
If you've got some huge log files then opening them up in Notepad just isn't feasible, but Tail or Get-Content -Tail will help... We had a 100GB log file and we needed to figure out why it was growing so…
Helping Charities to Save Large Sums of Money with Microsoft Donations
We look after a few charities, all of which need some Microsoft software at some point and they're very lucky that they get this at remarkable pricing, for example... Office 2013 Professional with Software Assurance is £20.00 Windows Server 2012…
Office 365 Outlook Password Prompt
We had a client on Office 365 where Outlook kept prompting for a password, anyone who's used Exchange Online or Office 365 has probably come across this at some point. We tried various fixes... Logging in to the portal and…
New Features in Windows Server 2012 R2
There are some interesting and exciting new features in Windows Server 2012 R2. I'd like to see the new "Work Folders" feature which essentially sounds like a corporate DropBox/SkyDrive enabling data synchronistion across devices with encryption and remote wipe facilities,…
Office 365 Upgrade Forwarding Issues
We have a few clients on Office 365 all of which have been upgraded to the new version, which is being rolled out to everyone this year. One client asked us to remove the forwarding of email from one mailbox…
Migrating XenServer to Hyper-V 2012
In between moving to our new larger premises I thought I'd find time to migrate some virtual machines from Citrix XenServer 5.6 to Microsoft Hyper-V 2012, lowering costs and improving performance, this turned out to be relatively painless. Step 1…
Phantom Unread Emails on iOS Devices
This problem has cropped up a few times recently. When using an iOS Device (iPhone/iPad etc) to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server, sometimes the device will report an incorrect number of Unread Messages. The following instructions are to clear…
Multi-tenant disaster recover solution using Windows Server 2012
Ooooh this will be an interesting read http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2013/04/01/multi-tenant-disaster-recover-solution-using-windows-server-2012.aspx This was one of the areas I was really looking forward to in Windows Server 2012 to enable low cost disaster recover for SMB clients. It will be interesting to see how…
Windows Server Backup – Send Email When Complete
In the days of tape backup it was easy to tell when a backup had completed because the tape could be configured to eject from the drive. A lot of our clients use a pool of USB backup drives which…
Office 365 – Outlook 2013 Autodiscover Problems
A client migrated themselves to Office 365 from an existing on-premise Exchange at the weekend and called us as they were having problems configuring Outlook 2013. Everytime they set it up it would auto-discover the existing Exchange server and not…